Willie McCovey

SAN FRANCISCO - When it comes to picking a spot to watch the World Series, San Francisco has bigger sports bars and louder sports bars. Sports bars with more wide-screen, high-definition TVs and with more recent memorabilia with signatures from Giants stars.

But for a baseball fan with a sense of the past - which is what true baseball fandom is all about - there's no better place for a baseball fan to visit than a small, old bar off Union Square.

Lefty O'Doul's is named after the local boy turned baseball star in the days when Major League Baseball extended no further west than St. Louis. Once considered the greatest player on the West Coast, he has been largely forgotten by...

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